FemAdLib Kolektiv

We are artists making feminist noise from a grass-roots level. FemAdLib is not just an exhibition, it's activism. It's creating a space for explicit political feminist art...and a challenge to all sexist, heteronormative art/artists/collectors/curators out there.

Dear All, who helped us with our fundraising and performance event and all others who joined our kolektiv and shared their works.... THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN.... It was pleasure meeting you all and working with you. We are on the process of closing down our kolektiv...we will send out more details. Wishing you best for your future works.

You may have already received an email from FemAdLib Kolektiv regarding the feminist city intervention on 18th June from 12-8pm. We would like to give you an alternative date to meet us and finalise the action;

We’d love to hear from you and you don't need to be a performer to get involved: 'Performance' will be very limited. As well as 'models' in the shop, we need a security, people who can give out leaflet and people who can help behind the scenes.

Opportunity for women to participate in a funded city intervention tackling sexism:Meeting on 16 May at 1pm at LARC

Roll up! Roll up! We are looking for women to participate in a political live art project this June in the heart of the City in London. FemAdLib K (a space for explicitly political feminist art) has been commissioned by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and ArtsAdmin to put on an anti-capitalist feminist intervention as part of the Two Degrees programme of events. The ‘show’ (art activism) will take place 16 and 21 June.

The project will be a one day interactive performance within a shop space. We’ll transform the space and invite the public in to interact. It will be part action, part performance and part art intervention. We plan to explore ideas around the process of commodification and consumption within a capitalist society, and particularly how this affects women.

We need women for a variety of roles both on and off ‘stage’. And we'll be holding two meetings with all the participants to discuss the intervention and your role in it. The first meeting will take place on 16th MAY, please let us know if you want to be involved by contacting femadlibkolektiv@rocketmail. com

Bethnal Green Working Men's ClubFemAdLib Kolektiv showed feminist art films by members of the Kolektiv and artists associated as part of Red Room Women's Edition at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.

Women's Edition was led by writer activist and icon Lois Weaver (www.splitbritches.com) and David Hoyle (Divine David Channel 4/Dukie).The night brought together 'leading thinkers and grass roots activists' - that was in the Women's Edition's words!

Sponsors

Ladyfest London 08Feminist Architect's Network (no longer operating)

IMECE (Turkish-speaking women's group)

“a woman’s viewpoint is no less limited than a man’s viewpoint and until women’s voices are accorded their proper place we should not speak of our culture as universal.” From intro to ‘feminist – art – theory: an anthology 1968-2000’

"I felt that by making a large canvas, magnificent in color, design, and proportion, filling it with fabrics and quilt blocks, I could raise a housewife's lowered consciousness..."Miriam Schapiro

" It is amazing how the public galleries in the UK are neglecting Feminist Art when it is all the rage overseas."Alexis Hunter

by Alex Brew

"In 2009, 75%of workers paid a minimum wage are female, 80% of MPs are male, 91% of high court judges are male, 92% of university vice-chancellors are male, 96% of FTSE 100 company directors are male and one in three women will face gender-based violence in her lifetime. In the words of a cheesy blockbuster: Houston, it looks like we still have a (sexism) problem." the f word

"Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it."bell hooks

"The end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally!"Shulamith Firestone